Clinton campaign ad targets Trump, Cruz on foreign policy

Hillary Clinton's campaign released a new ad Saturday seeking to turn the arguments of the most pointed critics of her tenure as Secretary of State back against them.

The ad, titled “Incredible,” shows clips of Donald Trump saying, “I would bomb the s— out of them” and Ted Cruz saying, “carpet bomb them into oblivion” — both comments the current national GOP frontrunners have made in reference to the rise of Islamic State in the Middle East.

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A narrator warns that “one of these Republicans … could actually be president.” He goes on to say that Clinton is the only candidate to stop Republicans from enacting a hyper-aggressive brand of foreign policy.

Both Trump and Cruz have repeatedly hit Clinton on her time at State, saying an interventionist foreign policy has led to the current unrest in the Middle East.

On CBS's "Face the Nation" last Sunday, Trump said Clinton had done "a horrible job" as Secretary of State. "I mean, the entire world has been upset. The entire world, it's a different place." He also laid blame on Clinton for the rise of the Islamic State. He's also called Libya's descent into civil war "her baby."

Cruz has also hit Clinton repeatedly on her handling of the escalating conflict that followed U.S. intervention in Libya, particularly on Benghazi.

Clinton, during the last Democratic presidential debate, defended the intervention in Libya, calling ousted leader Muammar Qaddafi “a despot with American blood on his hands.”

The ad further describes Clinton as “tested and tough,” those words playing over an image of her testifying at the House Benghazi hearings several months ago.